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The great escape

By SAMUEL LEE alltherage@thestar.com.my IMAGINE being locked in a tiny dark room with no windows for 45 minutes. Not exactly your idea of fun? Well that’s precisely what fans of “room escape games” enjoy doing. The concept of these games are pretty simple – they lock you in a room (usually dark and spooky) containing […]

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Safe and sound

By CARLOS RUBEN DOURADO brats@thestar.com.my I HAVE been driving for over a year now and to be honest, it has been one heck of a roller coaster ride. I was recently involved in an accident and the experience has, without a doubt, taught me how to be more defensive on the road – especially when […]

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Road less travelled

By JAYDEE LOK alltherage@thestar.com.my IF you were to ask Bank Negara financial analyst Marisha Naz, 25, where the best pad thai in the world is, she would tell you to look for a roadside shack in Lat Krabang, Thailand and it would be cooked by an eight-year-old boy. “I was really sceptical at first, but […]

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Get Personal: Woon King Chai

What happened to Woon King Chai and his friends when they were arrested for observing the Hulu Selangor parliamentary by-election campaign? Find out here!

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There and square

By JAYDEE LOK alltherage@thestar.com.my WHILE most of Instagram’s 150 million active users currently use the photo sharing application to flaunt their faces, their #ootd (that’s “outfit of the day”), lunch plans, pets and everything else for the sake of documenting their daily lives, others have found a way to use their photography skills for a […]

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Bijak Pandai: Personal Data Protection Act 2010

Putting our journalistic skills to use, so you get to sound smart. If you’ve been receiving emails and messages from all kinds of companies all of a sudden telling you how important the safety of your personal data is to them, you are not alone. They were all doing it in order to comply with […]

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Speaking out

Young Malaysians share their thoughts on corporal punishment and the effect it could possibly have on children. A PINCH here and a smack there – yes, that is how most of our parents deal with us when we misbehave. So imagine the nation’s surprise when a Malaysian couple was arrested in Sweden late last year […]

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Get Personal: Vincent Siow

Vincent Siow proves that you can still achieve your dreams, even though you have a full-time job.

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Coming home

By TOH YIN LI brats@thestar.com.my IN the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) rankings in 2012, Malaysia placed at number 52 out of 65 countries. It was also well below the average marks when assessed for proficiency in Reading, Mathematics and Science for students aged 15. With Malaysia’s seemingly under-performing education system – and its […]

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Save our rainforests

By CASSANDRA YEOH brats@thestar.com.my TURN on the tap and the water flows out. Switch on the electricity and there is light. Often times, we use natural resources to help ease our daily lives but have we ever stopped to think about what is happening behind the scene? With global warming, erratic weather conditions and other […]

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Teachers vs. students

By VIVIENNE WONG and CLARISSA SAY alltherage@thestar.com.my BULLYING happens. We all know that. We’ve got the statistics, the anecdotal evidence and the news reports to back it up. The problem we’re seeing now, however, is that bullying is happening between students and teachers as well. Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve had a case […]

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Sparing the rod

Guess what? It doesn’t spoil the child… THERE’S been a photo circulating the Internet, which seems to be a memo from the Ministry of Education to teachers informing them what kinds of punishments they are not allowed to mete out to students. Now for a lot of people, especially those from older generations, the list […]

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Doggy business

  DAVE Teoh is the kind of 19-year-old who forces you to look back and reconsider all your life choices. At 19, he’s already a certified dog trainer, a licensed private pilot, a diploma student at Sunway College and now, a (young) man who has made his dreams a reality. When R.AGE last spoke to […]

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Growing up Disney

By CLARISSA SAY brats@thestar.com.my LOOKING at Lucas Grabeel, it’s hard to imagine him as anyone other than Ryan Evans – High School Musical’s excessively fashionable blond star. And it’s just as well, seeing now that it’s his voice that will be starring in Disney Junior’s new 3D animation: Sheriff Callie’s Wild West, and not that […]

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Top of the world

By VIVIENNE WONG and CLARISSA SAY alltherage@thestar.com.my THINK rooftop bars are the pinnacle of wining and dining experiences? Think again. There are two establishments now in the Klang Valley that are taking things to completely new heights – by letting you party on helipads. That’s right. Helipads. If you think about it, helipads totally make […]

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